Adoptive mother: Boy threatened to kill family

12:58 PM,
Nov. 27, 2013

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Two months before a Butler County couple abruptly returned their 9-year-old adopted son to children's services, the mother told authorities she had tried to get the child help and had even considered putting him up for adoption again.

This time, the boy was threatening to kill everyone in the house with a steak knife, Lisa Cox told a Butler County dispatcher in an emotional 911 call obtained by The Enquirer.

It was one of many outbursts for the child who had been hospitalized at least twice for psychiatric problems. But this one was the most severe, Cox told the dispatcher just before noon on Aug. ...